CVE-2014-4717

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-07-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Simple Share Buttons Adder plugin before 4.5 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the (1) ssba_share_text parameter in a save action to wp-admin/options-general.php, which is not properly handled in the homepage, and unspecified vectors related to (2) Pages, (3) Posts, (4) Category/Archive pages or (5) post Excerpts.

Affected products

Simple Share Buttons Adder: through 4.4; 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 (+28)

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/127238/WordPress-Simple-Share-Buttons-Adder-4.4-CSRF-XSS.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Jun/138
https://security.dxw.com/advisories/csrf-and-stored-xss-in-simple-share-buttons-adder
https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-share-buttons-adder/changelog
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/127238/WordPress-Simple-Share-Buttons-Adder-4.4-CSRF-XSS.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Jun/138
https://security.dxw.com/advisories/csrf-and-stored-xss-in-simple-share-buttons-adder
https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-share-buttons-adder/changelog

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